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Contador Emerges With Victory
As Tour de 'Fiasco' Ends in Paris

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Carl Bialik and

Jason Fry

Updated July 30, 2007 12:57 p.m. ET

Alberto Contador, a 24-year-old Spaniard on the Discovery Channel team, yesterday won a tarnished Tour de France. Tarnished, because a half-dozen top riders either failed drug tests, were banished for evading the testers, or are in forced retirement or suspended for drug cases.

"Although the racing itself in this Tour was splendid -- give or take performances by [Alexandre] Vinokourov and [Michael] Rasmussen that apparently owed more to their pharmacists than to the riders -- it is impossible to argue that the race was...